Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The 10 Strangest Stories Of 2010; DAFTAS Award Winners Announced

The DAFTAS Winners have been announced for 2010. Don’t know
the DAFTAS? “It’s the award for everything as daft as…” Celebrating the
strange, weird, abnormal, funny, and ludicrous, the DAFTAS awards have just
announced the 10 strangest stories of 2010. DAFTAS Awards organizer Simon Crisp
said:

“At the end of a year it’s all too easy to look back and
remember only the biggest and most important events. We wanted to
celebrate the lighter side of the news, the things which barely qualify as news
but are the stories people like to talk about at the pub or when they should be
working.”

Here are the 2010 DAFTAS Award Winners.

And the nominees for the Weirdest Science Story
are: Spray-On Clothes In A Can, 5 Second Rule Isn’t True For Dropped Food,
Paper Plane Launched Into Space, Pigs Feel Optimistic Or Pessimistic, Wind
Turbines Should Be Painted Purple, Rubik’s Cubes Only 20 Moves From Completion.

And the Winner is Clothes in a Can. With expanding waistlines
across the country, spray on clothes may not be the brightest idea. But the
DAFTAS argue otherwise.

And the winner is Paul the octopus becomes World Cup star.
Paul successfully predicted the majority of the 2010 cup. He received death
threats for picking against Germany,
and died shortly after Spain
won the World Cup. Someone probably poisoned the water.

Winner for Crazy Crime – Man charged over unwanted 40cm penis
tattoo. A man in Australia
wanted to get a ying-yang tattoo on his back. His former friend decided he
would look better with a foot long penis tattoo. He also charged him for the
ink.

Winner for Off-Beat Art – Portrait made from 9,852 slices of
toast. It was a true labor of loaf. Laura Hadland gave her mother-in-law the
best present of all for her 50th birthday. A giant portrait made of toast.

Winner for Oops – Police release bizarre lettuce head e-fit.
Have you seen this man? Police in the UK released a photo of a burglar.
The man was shown with brown eyes, a round face, and what appears to be a full
head of lettuce hair.

Winner for Funny Product – Wine rack bra conceals boozy
boobs. Need to sneak in some extra booze to a football game? The WineRack
allows women to grow their bust, and hide their liquor, with their bra.

Nominees for the Lucky to be Alive award: Captain Calamity
Crashes For The 13th Time, Shopkeeper Saved Falling Child In Escalator Fall,
Climber Abseils Into Bubbling Volcano, Lorry Pushed Car Along Motorway At
60MPH, Pair Shot Themselves, To See What It Was Like, Explorer Wakes With Head
In Polar Bear’s Mouth.

Winner: Explorer wakes with head in polar bear’s mouth.
Sebastian Plur Nilssen got a rude awakening when he realized that the polar
bear gnawing on his skull was not a dream. Suprisingly, Nilssen survived.

Winner is: Jars of fresh air given to city workers. With
pollutants becoming a bigger problem in major cities, the National Trust in the
UK
decided that they had a way to alleviate people’s concerns. A free jar of fresh
air.

Winner is: Biggest ever Diet Coke and Mentos fountain.
Thousands of people gathered in Mexico
City to make the world’s largest Diet Coke and Mentos
fountain. The Telegraph reports that there were 2,433 participants in total.